Echoes of Somewhere

Tag: AI

AI voiceovers

September 25, 2023

For the voiceovers of Echoes of Somewhere I will be doing a hybrid solution: some voiceovers will be real humans, some will be AI and some will be handled by Apple’s text to speech tech from the 90’s.
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The Adventure Game Hotspot Podcast

September 20, 2023

I was recently interviewed on the Adventure Game Hotspot podcast. We talked about Echoes of Somewhere and the potential and the limits of using AI for game production.
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Using Midjourney for game locations (city hall part 1)

September 18, 2023

Sometimes these locations require more art direction. More specific features. In these cases, a lot more work is required. Here is a breakdown for how to direct Midjourney for game locations using it’s vary region and pan / zoom out features.
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Building a Puzzle

September 11, 2023

Building Adventure Game Puzzles is fun. This is a very complete breakdown of creating a bathroom scene with its puzzle in under 2 days! (Spoiler alert!)
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Using AI as inspiration for UI design

August 28, 2023

All throughout the project, I have been slightly tweaking the UI from time to time. Now that I have a better understanding of the functionality of the UI, a more polished look and feel begun to creep into my mind.
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Rendering custom shadows with URP shader graph & apartment ext location

August 21, 2023

As I upgraded the render pipeline for the game, I noticed that my custom shadow rendering shaders turned pink. It was time to transition from custom HLSL shading for the environments to a more modern shader graph based approach.
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a16z shoutout

July 20, 2023

Echoes of Somewhere was briefly featured in a recent Andreessen Horowitz blog post about AI in games.
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PDA part 1 – interface

July 3, 2023

Adventure creator has support for objective lists and documents. I figured why not integrate them into the game as well? The player could be able to receive some text messages like in Cyberpunk 2077 and have a list of to-do’s for keeping the objective clear.
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Maglev transit system

June 26, 2023

Way back when I did the maglev scene, it was just a scene void of any connection to anything in the game. I just knew I needed one so I made it. Now I returned to the scene to add the transit functionality to it that it required.
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Chat-GPT generated dialogue for AI characters

June 19, 2023

I had always planned on using Chat-GPT for creating the dialogue for the non-human characters. This is my experience of it.
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